In the dust of This Planet - Horror of Philosophy vol. 1

Eugene Thacker

Zero Books

2011

179 páginas

5h 58m

ISBN-13: 9781846946769

The world is increasingly unthinkable, a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, and the looming threat of extinction. In this book Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre of horror as offering a way of thinking about the unthinkable world. To confront this idea is to confront the limit of our ability to understand the world in which we live - a central motif of the horror genre. In the Dust of This Planet explores these relationships between philosophy and horror. In Thacker's hands, philosophy is not academic logic-chopping; instead, it is the thought of the limit of all thought, especially as it dovetails into occultism, demonology, and mysticism. Likewise, Thacker takes horror to mean something beyond the focus on gore and scare tactics, but as the under-appreciated genre of supernatural horror in fiction, film, comics, and music.

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Terror Cosmologico

Este livro é excelente apesar de esta todo em ingles o livro nos da uma visao de como somos insignificantes e pateticos diante a imensidao do Universo. Lovecraf estaria muito orgulhoso do Eugene com essa sua obra que pra mim é uma obra de filosofia cosmologica e metafisica das mais importantes da pós conteporaneidade.